<<Q/What is "Quality Chain" management ?
A/ by Froggies angel / Like a Quality controller that understands each step of a project and should check it to make sure that each stage is completed correctly 
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It should have been but it obviously wasn’t which makes me wonder where the problems all started from, was the initial project flawed or was the integration flawed, or maybe it was just the people on the project that were creating the problems
I have roughly 9 years of IT experience. I’m applying for a director position (with probably 3-4 managers reporting to me, each with 4-8 people reporting to them). This would definitely be a big step up in responsibility for me, but I feel I’m ready for the challenge.
I’ve been largely a technical lead in the past. I’ve handled interviews and budgeting, but I’m concerned that since I have’t been "strictly a manager" for 5+ years, that I won’t be considered.
According to the job requirements, they want a "big picture thinker", and all the other traits fit me perfect. However, I know I’m skinny on the pure management piece, which is supposedly 20% of the job.
I don’t want to exaggerate my resume, but I want to make sure I phrase information about my team and project leadership in a way that makes me seem as experienced in management as possible.
Any tips?
Not to bust your bubble, but I probably wouldn’t hire someone for a director role of this scope who hadn’t had a significant amount of management experience. However, my job is to assist you, not evaluate you, so here are some ideas.
-Mention your involvement in any type of team projects – if you were a leader on the project, that is essentially a "management" function.
-Do you interface with team members in remote locations? There is a certain amount of management involved in matrix-managing remote resources
-Of course mention any sort of previous management experience you have, putting it toward the front of your resume points.
-Any leadership/management classes or school coursework that you could list? Seminars you’ve attended? Anything will help here…
Good luck.
I’m very interested in getting into project management. I don’t have a degree so I’m looking into certifications to get my foot in the door.
Which certification will be a good stepping stone for someone with no degree and no project management experience?
It depends a little bit on where you’re located, and what industry you’re interested in working for.
Outside the US you’ll probably want to look at the International Project Management Association (see links)
In the US there a number of potential project management-related certifications. The most widely known are administered by one of the following four organizations :
•The Project Management Institute (PMI)
•CompTia
•Microsoft
•The American Society for the Advancement of Project Management (asapm)
Microsoft’s certification program is based around the use of its tool, Microsoft Project, and is currently being re-worked.
The asapm certification program is based on well established international standards, but has only recently been launched in the US. It is not widely known, and it is targeted at experienced project managers.
CompTia offers a single project management certificate. It is aimed at entry level project managers. However, it is not widely recognized, and is often, incorrectly, narrowly associated with the IT industry, since most of CompTIA’s other certifications are IT related.
PMI now offers four certifications, the most widely known being the project management professional (PMP). Three of the certifications, including the PMP, are targeted at experienced project managers. However , the CAPM (Certified Associate in Project Management) eligibility requirements are as follows :
•High school diploma, associate’s degree, or global equivalent
Plus
•Either 1500 hours of project management experience
•Or 23 hours of formal project management education
These requirements were changed fairly recently by PMI, and the CAPM certification has yet not taken off in the same way as the PMP. Whereas there are now over 240,000 PMPs worldwide, there are fewer than 3000 CAPMs. However, there are an additional 4500 people who have submitted CAPM applications and are now qualified to sit for the CAPM exam, suggesting that interest is growing quickly.
At the moment I finished a bachelor degree on Information Technology summa cum laude. Doing 2 masters degree (one in information security, another in project management). Certified in A+, Network+, Server+ and Security+ working on MCSA and MCSE.
If I wish to study a doctorate on cryptology or information security, what should be the next steps? I understand about the CISSP, but still need some more information to get ready.
I hope you expect knowledgeable couselors to be tuned-in here.
For my business school project, I would like to create a work flow of the best practices in property management in DC/MD/VA for commercial and residential properties. This would include the steps and form for:
a. taking in a client that is/will be a property owner; and
b. taking in a client that is/will be a property renter.
Trade organizations that I have contacted (BOMA, IREM, and NARPM) do not have any such documentation (or did not want to share with a student). I do not know anyone in the business so I cannot interview a company, as much as I would like to.
Can you help me?
Do you have a website at which I should look?
Do you work in a property management company and are willing to take a few moments for a phone interview?
Do you have a suggestion of whom I could talk to?
thank you.
I am surprised that NARPM does not have a best practices document for you. Did you give them a call?
<<Managerial Madness: Micro-Managers
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Micro-management kills projects. Say that loud, say it proud. Good, conscientious workers hate micro-managers; the folks who insist on eyeballing every last "t" to make sure it is crossed and who wish they could require team members to get bathroom passes before getting up from their desks. Now ask yourself this: Are you a micro-manager?
Do not be too quick to say no.
"In 20 years of doing this work I have never had a manager come to me and say, ‘I need help, I’m a micro-manager," says Wally Bock, an executive coach. "They feel they are only doing their jobs."
Nobody in the history of work has ever awoken, clapped his hands and said: "I can’t wait until I’m at work micro-managing the heck out of this project and my team."
So, if you don’t know you are doing it, how can you possibly stop?
Definition time. What exactly is micro-management? It boils down to insufficient delegation (handing off only the easiest tasks) and/or continually checking in on progress.
"Thus, when a project manager states, ‘I need you to do ‘X’ by Friday at 5 p.m.," and calls the person to whom the task was assigned several times a day monitoring progress, the person is a classic micro-manager," says Kimberly Mount, an adjunct professor of organizational psychology at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology and a leadership development consultant.
The classic micro-manager cannot resist meddling at every step in a project. Good project managers parcel out work, then let team members go off and percolate individually and without interference. Not a micro-manager. These lines can be finely drawn, so understand that what makes micro-management particularly treacherous is "it is too much of a good thing," says Stefanie Smith, head of Stratex, a coaching firm.
Chew on this factoid: according to Harry Chambers, author of My Way or the Highway: The Micromanagement Survival Guide , 71% of us indicate we are victims of micromanagement.
Would your team members say they are in that super-majority?
What causes micro-management? Experts point to three drivers:
* Extreme detail orientation a.k.a, perfectionism. * Self-centeredness. That is, "[T]he belief you are smarter than the others," says Todd Dewett, an associate professor of management at Wayne State University. * Anxiety. When you are worried that a flubbed project could drive your team’s work to Bangalore, India (or from Bangalore to Karachi Â… or wherever), it is easy to fall into eyeballing every step.
"Micro-management is a symptom of thinking things are out of control," adds consultant Don Maruska, author of How Great Decisions Get Made .
Say that a project manager who doesn’t fear possible job loss is delusional bordering on Pollyanna and you may be right, meaning that, in many cases, the building blocks for micro-management have a foundation in reality. But that does not make it a good thing, particularly not when it is exhaustively documented that a micro-manager sucks the enthusiasm out a project team (Who wants to give his/her all when the boss redoes everything anyway?).
Even worse. A classic symptom of the micro-manager is that he cannot get his own work done, says organizational consultant Simma Lieberman. So busy supervising the work of others, the micro-manager frequently finds his own to-do list gets ignored. And that is no way to win job security.
Taking the Cure
It isn’t easy to break the cycle of micro-management but it can happen. Step one, says Maruska, is to make a conscious effort to transition from always being the doer into being a manager of others. Focus on getting there and it will gradually come to be.
Step two, and maybe a still harder step, says Louellen Essex, co-author of Manager’s Desktop Consultant: Just-in-Time Solutions to the Top People Problems That Keep You Up at Night , is to dialog with team members. Ask them: do they feel micro-managed? What kind of supervision and leadership do they want? Of course, they won’t immediately open up with honesty so keep prodding.
Show sincerity: "I cannot properly manage this project without your input about what you want from a leader." Little by little, team members will spill about how much (or how little) direction they genuinely want from you. A tricky bit is that some team members want a lot of oversight, some want little or none, so for the manager part of the job is knowing who needs how much hand-holding.
The last step: don’t focus on process, focus on outcomes and results. Inveterate micro-managers stay hung up on process, but the managers who succeed know that, at project’s end, all the high-level bosses in the organization care about is what was accomplished. Period.
"The outcome is what really matters," stresses Essex. Just keep that in mind and, poof, micro-management proclivities just may evaporate.
Author: Robert McGarvey>>
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Hi everyone!
This is a cover letter I have written to apply for some courses in an English University.
Would you mind checking if there are some mistakes?
Any tips, advice or suggestions will be very appreciated.
Thank you in advance!
Herewith, I would like to express my interest in taking part in the following modules as short scheme courses: Gender and Social Development, Project Planning and Management and Research Methods.
I graduated in Education 2 years ago and, before and after my degree, I spent many months in India.
I went there to have some pre-lauream and post-lauream training.
All these training were within educational projects as I decided to study Education to improve education facilities and projects in developing countries.
Therefore, after my degree and after some experiences in those countries, I am now considering to apply for a Master, possible an MSc, in Education.
In the near future, I would like to work in international cooperation and to give a valuable support in the educational area.
The 3 courses I have decide to apply for will give me a in depth and strong knowledge of main importance themes within the educational area.
The course Gender and Social Development would let me widen the central role the dynamics between genders play in a developing country. The access to education and work to women is the key factor which let societies effectively improve. Therefore, every development project in such countries should consider what the output and benefit would be for women.
The course in Project Planning and Management would give me the technical know-how/skills to set a project so that the aims of the project can be achieved. Despite my education background, I don’t know anything about project management nor its steps, in order to realize a valuable project and, therefore, I can’t give my total support in educational project. Indeed, while my stays in Indian NGOs, I realized how a mismanagement of people and money along with poor organization of the project can put to waste all the hard efforts the team put into its realization.
Therefore, I believe that a knowledge of this issue is something any development professional should have.
In order to plan an effective development project, it’s crucial to discover the real needs of the people who would benefit from the project.
It’s then important a good command of both qualitative and quantitative research techniques.
While my stays in developing countries I have often, more or less in depth, got in touch with NGOs which tried to pursue and to implement educational project, with children and woman.
Although all their efforts were really valuable and noble, the projects themselves were badly conceived. The people who worked on creating or improving a rural school, were not able to single out whether the project they were about to establish was something the people really needed nor to assess the feedback of their educational project. Consequentially, the goodwill of their efforts could be totally invalidated by the results because, maybe, the project they wanted to develop didn’t match at all the needs of the people of that area. All these reasons underline the crucial role played by a good research methodology. This is way I would be very delighted to study the Research Methods course. What I often realized during my experiences abroad, was that, unfortunately, the same accuracy that was put into micro financial or rural development projects was not put in educational projects.
For all the above raisons, I think I could not ask more than doing these courses in university specialized in Development Studies, as the XXXXX is.
I would like to thank you in advance for considering my application and I am looking forward to your response.
Sorry if it’s so long!
I know it’s long but I am asked to write a 500-word statement.
‘all these traing were’ should be’ all this training was’
‘It’s then important a good command of both qualitative and quantitative research techniques. ‘ this sentence doesnt quite make sense to me im not sure what you are trying to saying
‘While my stays in developing countries ‘ try , ‘while staying in developing countries’
‘For all the above raisons,’ spelling! ‘for all the above reasons’
apart from that it seems good to me!!!
good luck!
Hi All,
I am new to System Analysis & Design. I have a project which has a SRS document which is not yet complete. There might be additions/deletion later. The project has to be done in VB.NET and MySQL currently and later ported to ASP.NET. The project is about the "Lodge Management" – basically the hotel room management with restaurant billing linked to it.
I need to design the best architecture ( rather a robust framework ), need to identify Presentation, Business & Data layer, prepare a design document (HLD & LLD). I dont understand the words like design patterns, UML, SOA, MVC, Visio document, project management, Effort Estimation etc.
Can some one send me some good document with a practical system problem solved ? It will be helpful even if you give me some link on the web where I can proceed step-by-step to design a great software piece.
Please help me.
I don’t want to dishearten you, but this an awful lot to ask.
You are unlikely to see solutions to previous projects because they are commercially sensitive. You are talking lots of work here.
i m a mca student and want tomake a project on hostel management and having no idea about it as it is my 1st project.
You can read about the basic project management process at the first link below.
The second link is to Project Managment for Dummies, which is a good inexpensive book to read to get started with project management.
How do you copy the Tracking Gantt View of a project displayed by Microsoft
Project 2003 and to insert it as a picture into a Word document?
Please give a step to step on how this is done
Thanks
In MSP2003: Locate the "Copy Picture" icon on your toolbar (looks like a camera) and/or View->Toolbar->Analysis locate the "Copy Picture to Office Wizard" button.
In MSP2007: Report->Copy Picture, or use the analysis toolbar button as described for MSP2003
